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Packet of 'De Reszke Minors' Cigarettes

Smoking

1920-1950

Alcatel 'One Touch Easy' mobile telephone, 1998-2002

Telecommunications

1998-2002

Model of a male white baby at 22-23 weeks' development, England, 1998

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1998

Original vacuum cleaner, from to Royal Naval College

Domestic Appliances

1905

Mill Engine

Motive Power

1903

Jubilee telephone with external bell box, 1977

Telecommunications

1977

Six bifurcated needles for smallpox vaccination

Public Health & Hygiene

1975-1978

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

'Chopper' bicycle

Road Transport

1978

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777

Motorola StarTAC mobile phone, 1997.

Telecommunications

1997

Gecophone crystal detector radio set no. 1, 1923

Radio Communication

1923

Bosch 509e mobile telephone, 1999-2003

Telecommunications

1999-2003

DEC PDP-8 minicomputer, 1965.

Computing & Data Processing

1965

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

The Munition Girls

Stanhope Alexander Forbes

1918

Black Arrow R4 launch vehicle, 1971

Space Technology

1971

Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia

Astronomy

1554

Packet of 20 'Three Castles' cigarettes

Smoking

1920-1950

Phillip's Economic Computer

Computing & Data Processing

1949

Boyle-type anaesthetic machine

Anaesthesiology

1955-1965

Camera Obscura

King George III

1701-1752

Islamic astrolabe

Astronomy

1666-1667

Power loom

Textiles Machinery

1926

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

Telecommunications

1901-1910

Foucault Pendulum for demonstrating the Earth's rotation

Astronomy

1988

Apollo 11 Lunar Lander kit (21-7-69). First moon l

Space Technology

1969

Short Magazine Mark III Lee Enfield .303 rifle (deactivated)

Public Health & Hygiene

c. 1917

Motorola 'Timeport' L7089 mobile telephone, 1999-2002

Telecommunications

1999-2002

Coin operated toilet lock

Public Health & Hygiene

1890-1930

Louis Pasteur’s Compound Microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Tracy, a transgenic sheep

Biotechnology

1990-1997

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Vessel for growing mould, used in Oxford, England, 1942

Biotechnology

1940-1944

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

Radio Communication

1934

'Build a Better Burger' game

Nutrition & Food Technology

1984-1986

Hoover 'Dustette' Vacuum Cleaner

Domestic Appliances

1964

'Jedi' helmet, used with Cryogenic Magnetic Resonance Imaging Machine

Radiomedicine

1980

'Prorace' cervical cap

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1915-1925

Panhard Levassor 4hp motor car

Road Transport

1894-1895

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Philips TCD308 mobile telephone, 1997-2001

Telecommunications

1997-2001

Alan Measles - God in the time of Covid-19 by Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry

2020

Carton of four Viagra (Sildenafil citrate) tablets, Sandwich, England, 1996-1998

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1998

main frame, for Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) pilot model, 1949

Computing & Data Processing

1949

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Wells Cathedral clock, 1392

Time Measurement

1392

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769